Christo and Jeanne-Claude Career Archive

An extensive collection of 49 signed volumes and numerous folders of signed ephemera, 1970s to 2010s, including:

Surrounded Islands. Biscayne Bay, Greater Miami, Florida, 1980-83, Presentation Copy, inscribed to Calixte Stamp and dated ‘1994’ on the half title, with a mounted piece of fabric and numerous sketches, facsimiles and plans, as well as colour photographic illustrations, some double-paged, by Wolfgang Volz, full cloth, spine sunned, pictorial slipcase, large 4to, H.N. Abrams, New York, 1986;

Running Fence, Sonoma and Marin Counties, California 1972-76, Limited Edition, signed by both Christo and Jeanne-Claude to the limitation page, mounted piece of fabric, buckram, pictorial slipcase, 1978;

Verhüllter / Wrapped Reichstag, Berlin 1971-95, Limited Edition, signed by the artists and photographer (Wolfgang Volz) on the limitation page, with a sample of original aluminium mesh, original cloth, pictorial slipcase, Taschen, 1996; with other similar books, numerous duplicates, v.s.;

Letters, printed correspondence, press releases, factsheets relating to projects, project team id cards;

Numerous fabric samples;

Promotional material, almost all signed: hundreds of postcards; photos, gift bags, menu, invitations, inscribed magazines, telephone cards, badges, envelopes, flip booklets, novelty cheques;

***From the Estate of Calixte Stamp, New York office manager for Christo and Jean-Claude through the 90s and into the 2000s, and a close personal friend. All items gifted by the artists.